This immortal jellyfish was first discovered by accident by the german marine biology student Christian Sommer, in 1998.
The regular jellyfishs' life expectancy is about hours or months and, extremely rarely, years. How can the immortal jellyfish cheat this system?
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Turritopsis dohrnii - The Immortal Jellyfish
Sommer realized the jellyfish simply refused to die, regressing to its initial stage of development until restart its life cycle again, successively, like it had been suffered a reverse aging.
We don't need to worry about an immortal jellyfish invasion that will reproduce like crazy and populate the seven seas - they are far from invincible. In the polyp stage they are very vulnerable and there are a lot of predators. Nevertheless they are still the only animals on the planet who can return to their immature stage and "begin your journey" again. Resources: http://www.hypeness.com.br/2013/02/essa-agua-viva-e-o-unico-animal-imortal-do-planeta/ http://hypescience.com/27905-o-unico-animal-imortal-da-terra/ |

Very nice!!
ResponderExcluirNice post! I love this blog
ResponderExcluirGot "bitten" once, got bitten twice. Never went to the beach since then.
ResponderExcluirI want to be that jellyfish in other life hahaha, jkk
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